Due to inclement weather, the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton has postponed its speakers for Black History Month, Elizabeth Eckford and Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton. The pair has been rescheduled to speak at a free event on Feb. 28 at 6:00 p.m. at the UACCM Fine Arts Auditorium. In the early 1950s, Arkansas was one of 13 states with segregated schools, preventing black and white children from attending the same school. The start of integration in the South began when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) appealed to the United States Supreme Court in 1952 on the grounds that school segregation was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court denied this appeal claiming that segregation was constitutional as long as schools were “separate but equal.” For two years, the NAACP provided the court with information to prove that the schools were not equal, and in 1954, the court ruled in their favor. Some of the 13 states began desegregation, b...